Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)

Before the noble and learned Lord sits down and we end this, I have a real concern. If we are going to have a review from when the law is implemented, and it reports and decides what needs to be done, what is going to happen during that period to the victims, who may find that the argument that the chain of causation has been broken is picked up by insurance companies in an industry that is desperate not to pay out? As we have heard, the Government themselves have an interest in not having to pay out because of the size of the compensation for which people are rightly due because their lives have been not only ruined but taken away. To go back to the point about injury, one of the long-term dangers of a catastrophic injury is renal failure. What if someone in that position decides that they do not want to continue with dialysis? That would then put them in the category of being terminally ill. I am also concerned that the building site, or wherever it was where they were working, that caused the catastrophic injury could then claim that the chain of causation had been broken in this situation and therefore wriggle out of compensation that would otherwise be due.